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On the basis of the eikonal approximation of quantum scattering theory, the problem of fast charged particles scattering in a thin crystal when particles fall along one its plane of atoms and in a thin layer of amorphous matter is…
Asymptotic behavior of the scattering amplitude for two scalar particles by scalar, vector and tensor exchanges at high energy and fixed momentum transfers is reconsidered in quantum field theory. In the framework of the quasi-potential…
We describe the application of the quantum mechanical bootstrap to the solution of one-dimensional scattering problems. By fixing a boundary and modulating the Robin parameter of the boundary conditions we are able to extract the reflection…
For the scattering of scalar waves in two and three dimensions and electromagnetic waves in three dimensions, we identify a condition on the scattering interaction under which the $N$-th order Born approximation gives the exact solution of…
Solutions in the form of series expansion, as the Born approximation, are very useful for describing time-independent scattering of quantum particles. In this work, it is mathematically demonstred that such solutions, when applied to…
Time harmonic inverse scattering using accurate forward models is often computationally expensive. On the other hand, the use of computationally efficient solvers, such as the Born approximation, may fail if the targets do not satisfy the…
We present a detailed study of scattering by an amplitude-modulated potential barrier using three distinct physical frameworks: quantum, classical, and semiclassical. Classical physics gives bounds on the energy and momentum of the…
We present a semiclassical analysis of the quantum propagator of a particle confined on one side by a steeply, monotonically rising potential. The models studied in detail have potentials proportional to $x^{\alpha}$ for $x>0$; the limit…
In this paper we study scattering of two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions by a potential that depends on a single Cartesian variable. Depending on the energy of the incoming particle and its angle of incidence, there are three different…
The first and second Born approximation are studied with the path integral representation for $ {\cal T} $ matrix. The $ {\cal T}$ matrix is calculated for Woods-Saxon potential scattering. To make corresponding integrals solvable…
This article is devoted to studying the inverse scattering for the fractional Schr\"{o}dinger equation, and in particular we solve the Born approximation problem. Based on the ($p$,$q$)-type resolvent estimate for the fractional Laplacian,…
Recently, it has been shown that the generalized symmetric Woods-Saxon potential energy, in which surface interaction terms are taken into account, describes the physical processes better than the standard form. Therefore in this study, we…
For relativistic energies the small angle classical cross section for scattering on a Coulomb potential agrees with the first Born approximation for quantum cross section for scalar particle only in the leading term. The disagreement in…
Scattering from a compound barrier, one composed of a number of distinct non-overlapping sub-barriers, has a number of interesting and subtle mathematical features. If one is scattering classical particles, where the wave aspects of the…
We present a theoretical framework for electromagnetic scattering by particles with a permittivity that is periodically varying in time, based on a perturbative approach. Within this framework, we derive explicit expressions for the…
In this paper, the WKB approximation to the scattering problem is developed without the divergences which usually appear at the classical turning points. A detailed procedure of complexification is shown to generate results identical to the…
We present a covariant framework to compute scattering amplitudes and potentials in a de Sitter background. In this setting, we compute the potential of a graviton-mediated scattering process involving two very massive scalars at tree…
A solution of the scattering problem is obtained for the Schr\"odinger equation with the potential of induced dipole interaction, which decreases as the inverse square of the distance. Such a potential arises in the collision of an incident…
Perturbation theory is applied to one-dimensional scattering systems consisting of a general class of inhomogeneous and isotropic slabs having size $L$ described by the relative permittivity $\varepsilon(z) = 1 + \alpha \chi(z)$, where…
Plasma turbulence, and edge density fluctuations in particular, can under certain conditions broaden the cross-section of injected microwave beams significantly. This can be a severe problem for applications relying on well-localized…